Different kind of stage

Huang Ying's new play is part of the ongoing 2019 Story in Beijing, a small-theater festival, which features 20 original Chinese plays, and runs through Aug 31, Chen Nan reports.

In 1997, 18-year-old Huang Ying watched the classic play Antique directed by Lin Zhaohua, a renowned Chinese director of Beijing People's Art Theatre, performed by star actors, including Pu Cunxin and Liang Guanhua.

Huang was very impressed by the play, which follows a competition between two Beijing-based antique collectors over three decades from 1900s to 1930s, as well as the vivid portrayal by the actors onstage.